Baylor School swimmer Kristen Vredeveld and Baylor School swim coach Dan Flack attend the Chattanooga Hall of Fame induction where Vredeveld received the Female Athlete of the Year Award.Baylor School held a signing party Wednesday evening to celebrate with four girls’ swimmers who signed NCAA Division I letters of intent and another who could have but picked a Division II school instead.
“The D-II team is very good, probably better than her D-I options,” Baylor coach Dan Flack said of Hannah Peifer’s decision to go to Queens University at Charlotte. “A lot of professionals and Olympians train there and go to school there.”
Baylor alumnus Evante Gibson is a Queens sophomore, “and it’s been wonderful for him,” Flack said.
Baylor has no senior boys’ swimmers this year, but four other representatives of arguably the best girls’ class in school history are moving on. Kristen Vredeveld is headed to the top women’s program in the country, California (Berkeley), while Kimberlee John-Williams is going to Georgia, Mikaya Reynolds to Marshall and Emma Lochmaier to the Air Force Academy.
“They’re part of a pretty special group,” Flack said. “I will match this particular class’s accomplishments against any other athletic team around here. They’re 32-0 in dual meets with half a year to go, and they’ve won three state championships and two national championships and been ranked second the other year. And they have multiple, multiple state, even national records.”